Person Beate Ratter

Beate Ratter, born in 1962, is a geographer dedicated to studying, understanding and enhancing human-nature-interaction in a transdisciplinary way. She holds a professorship at Universität Hamburg for Integrated Geography and jointly heads the Department of Human Dimensions of Coastal Areas at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon. She contributed to the IPCC »Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC)« as a lead author and was granted the UNESCO chair on »Societal climate change research and resilience«.